[ic] Too many new ID assignments for this IP address

[Jon Jensen]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Eric Bont wrote:

> For months we have running a catalog for our customer without any problems 
> (Interchange 5.3.0). Suddenly our customer get a strange error. It seems 
> that the ip off our customer is blocked by Interchange.
> 
> IE6:
> "no permission (403)"
> 
> Netscape:
> "Too many new ID assignments for this address. Please wait at least 24 hours 
> before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access.
> Terminating."
> 
> Error log: (a lot of messages)
> 66.51.91.26 - - [02/September/2004:10:04:31 +0200] xxxx 
> /cgi-bin/xxxx/meoh320001.html Too many new ID assignments for this IP 
> address. Please wait at least 24 hours
> >before trying again. Only waiting that period will allow access. 
> >Terminating.
> 
> Only the ip-adres for our customer is blocked by IC. Browsing from an other 
> ip-adress is working well. We use RobotLimit 100.
> 
> Maybe there is no address counter reset when there is page access for 30 
> sec?
> 
> We removed the address counter for this IP number  ( 
> tmp/addr_ctr/6/2/62_58_92_66 ). After that everything works normal again.
> 
> Any ideas?

Sounds like you just need to increase your RobotLimit. Try 500 or 1000. 
The main value in it is that is keeps your disk from being filled up with 
useless sessions and you running out of inodes or (on ext2/ext3) filling 
up your session directories.

Jon


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Jon Jensen
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